Claire "Yum" Arnold

 
Claire Arnold is CEO and co-founder of Atlanta based Leapfrog Services. Leapfrog provides extraordinary IT services in a remote management model, to small and medium sized organizations, primarily in the professional services and non profit sectors. Prior to founding Leapfrog, Ms. Arnold acquired NCC LP, building it into one of Georgia’s five largest privately held companies.  She also spent nearly 10 years with Coca-Cola USA, in marketing, sales, sales management and long range planning. Ms. Arnold served for many years as a Trustee of Mary Baldwin College, most recently as Chair of its Board of Trustees.  She has been active in YPO, WPO, The National Conference for Community and Justice, Leadership Atlanta, CEO the Committee of 200, and as a mentor to younger women in the Atlanta business community.  She serves on the Board of Trustees of The Atlanta Rotary Club, The Westminster Schools and The Georgia Conservancy.  She is also on the Board of Visitors of The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, The Board of Councilors of The Carter Center, and the Board of Directors of three NYSE firms and the Technology Association of Georgia.  She was named the 2002 Small Business Person of the Year by the Metropolitan Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and the Atlanta Business Chronicle and received the 2004 Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans Award for outstanding performance as a corporate director.   In 2006, she was inducted into the Academy of Women Achievers by the YWCA.